Former US President Donald Trump went to court on Tuesday to overturn a decision to exclude him from the ballot in the Republican primary in the state of Maine, the second such measure taken ten months before the polls are set for the US presidential election.

A week after a similar ruling in Colorado, Maine authorities on Thursday ruled the Republican front-runner “unfit to serve as president” because of a bloody attack by his supporters at the state Capitol on January 6, 2021, in order to block the formal ratification of the victory of his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden, in the 2020 presidential election.

Lawyers for the tycoon yesterday asked the Maine justice to annul the decision taken by the Democratic Secretary of the Interior of the state of Maine, Senna Bellows, calling her a “biased” politician who “acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.”

“I have confidence in my decision and the rule of law,” Ms. Bellows countered in a news release released by her office after Mr. Trump’s appeal.

The Secretary of the Interior of Maine, as well as the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado, decided based on the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which prohibits any person involved in “insurrection” from holding public office.

The former president (2017-2021) was indicted in August at the federal level as well as in the state of Georgia: he is accused of trying to achieve the reversal of the 2020 election result.

The — historic — decisions of the authorities in Maine and Colorado do not concern at this stage only the intra-party Republican vote, which will be held in these two states on (“Super Tuesday”) March 5.

However, they are not applicable while court proceedings are ongoing.

About fifteen lawsuits have been filed in various states to exclude Mr. Trump from the GOP caucus. In the states of Michigan and Minnesota, they were rejected.

The issue is ultimately expected to be decided in the federal Supreme Court.

State-by-state voting for presidential nominees begins Monday, January 15th in Iowa.